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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
266 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 14
An intensive search is being made along the whole coastline between Kyaukpyu, eight miles south of Akyab, and Bassein, for the airmen, Hook and Mathews, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Halteric, after a good trip from Nauru and Ocean Island entered Port Hunter at daylight today and proceeded to a bunker…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two men had a thrilling fight for life in the icy waters of Nelson's Bay when their launch swamped and sank there last night. The men were an hour in the water, and swam 100 yards to shore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Seoul wireless station reports the sinking of the Norwegian steamer, Dampto, 2500 tons, off Shantung Peninsula, in a dense fog at 5 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five were killed and 17 injured when the Yugoslav steamer Kara Georgevitch collidded with the Italian motor-vessel Francesco Moresini off the Dalmatian coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FIVE persons, including four passengers, one of whom was an American woman, were drowned when a Dornier-Wahl flying boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Prince of Wales, at Dover to-day, christened the world's largest and fastest motor lifeboat, naming the vessel Sir William…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message was received early this morning, stating that the Interstate Steamships Company's steamer Iron Crown, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Captain Jean Mermoz, who left Natal, Brazil, in a seaplane on Monday afternoon in an attempt to fly eastwards across the Southern Atlantic, was forced…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY, Friday. Grounding on Webb rock, off the South Australian Coast, the well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Prince of Wales, at Dover, christened the world's largest and fastest motor life-boat, naming the vessel "Sir William Hilary." after the founder of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As the Hesperus sailed laiden with exports from Australia to America, over a sea whose waters were as calm as those of a mountain lake…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A red flag flying on a sailing boat manned by a few Malay fishermen attracted the attention of passengers on the Japanese mail steamer Tango Maru as she…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Carrying mails from Brazil to Paris, Jean Mermoz was forced down 600 miles from the African coast, and was picked up by the steamer Phocee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The melodrama, The Wrecker, has evidently inspired a gang of ruthless vandals at Erskineville. Signing themselves "The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN EXCLUSIVE "Sun" picture showing George Nostona[?]os, [?] popular Greek wrestler, putting his famous "key lock" hold on George McLeod, whom he defeated. The men gained a fall each, and the Kostonaros,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"The ship was never aground." said Captain McLellan, master of the steamer Iron Crown, which arrived in Newcastle to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Her crow's quarters damaged by a terrific storm that raged in the mid-Pacific, the British Steamer Large Law, several days late…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Listen! A distant sun is sounding, Raging waves are fast surrounding Some wrecked ship to-night. Who will go through cold and danger…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The steamer Rangitata, bound to England from New Zealand, has wirelessed that when off the Azores the German steamer Targis, was sighted. It was afire…
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